A Kenyan soldier urges people to take cover during the terror attack on the Dusit Hotel complex in 2018.
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The terror group uses the proceeds of criminal activity to support its political agenda.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the opening of the new Turkish embassy in Mogadishu in June 2016.
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Turkey harbours strong national ambitions, and a willingness to grow and use its military muscle alongside economic instruments.
A man chases away a swarm of desert locusts in the bush near Enziu, Kitui County, some 200km east of the capital Nairobi, Kenya.
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The best way of dealing with desert locust, as other locust species, is to adopt a preventive management strategy.
Millions of people in the Horn of Africa lack safe, reliable and affordable water throughout the year.
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Drought-driven humanitarian emergencies can be prevented if groundwater is reliably made available at strategic locations.
Several African states are struggling to stem violent extremism.
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It is time to reconsider the predominant strategy in play on the continent for dealing with terrorism.
The military has taken control of Sudan while protesters demand a total clean-out of Omar al-Bashir’s regime.
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The time for fundamental political reforms in Sudan is now with the end of al-Bashir’s rule.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (left) and Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki re-opening the Eritrean embassy in Addis Ababa.
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It would be a mistake to ridicule what’s been achieved in the Horn of Africa, but obstacles remain.
Protests are taking place in Ethiopia’s Amhara region an opposition stronghold.
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Ethiopia’s recent upheavals could potentially destabilise the entire Horn of Africa.
Shipping vessels seen off the Djibouti port in the Gulf of Aden.
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A deal brokered by Ethiopia to develop the port at Berbera will have a ripple effect across the Horn of Africa.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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The US Secretary of State’s mission to Africa will produce few benefits for the continent or for US-Africa relations.
Eritrean asylum seekers protest against deportation in Israel, in January 2017.
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Israel is deporting thousands of Eritrean asylum seekers to Rwanda, while in the US, many face being sent back to the country they fled.
The attack in Mogadishu has been called the city’s ‘worst ever’.
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The attack, in which more than 300 people were killed, comes as Somalia tries to put in place a new security pact.
A UN helicopter flies over people waiting for food aid in South Sudan.
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The western media’s focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine that’s unfolding in Africa.
A camp for people affected by malnutrition in Eritrea.
A photo smuggled out of Eritrea by the Freedom Friday network.
Eritreans are at risk of severe malnutrition – but aid agencies struggle to access those in need.
A squadron of UAE Mirage fighter planes such as this one at the Dubai Airshow are stationed in Eritrea for Yemeni operations.
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The growing Arab military, political and religious influence is only the latest example of an external force taking hold in the Horn of Africa.
Addis Ababa’s light-rail network built by China Railway Engineering Corporation has become a key transport link for city residents.
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In Ethiopia, the US pushes the diffusion of individual freedoms and China jockeys for collective economic betterment. Both the US and China could lose out if chaos spreads in the Horn of Africa.
Fidel Castro poured troops into Ethiopia’s war with Somalia after describing Siad Barre as “above all a chauvinist”.
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Many Ethiopians regard Castro as the man who saved their country. Somalis view him as the man who denied them the Greater Somalia re-union
Hell and high water: a German anti-piracy ship returns from an African tour.
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The East African drought is one of the area’s worst in 60 years.
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